I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.

Being funny it turns out is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you you are fine.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems needing freedom trying to find a way to cut themselves loose but failing to rid themselves of conscience a sense of sin the whole bag of tricks.

I don't want to end up being a circus act doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

Men of Virginia countrymen of Washington of Patrick Henry of Jefferson and of Madison will ye be true to your constitutional faith?

Writing is an act of faith not a trick of grammar.

Positive rights are the right to shelter the right to education the right to health care the right to a living wage. These things are - these are I would call them more properly political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

I don't remember my dreams. I'm one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do but I never remember my dreams.

I've had dreams about tricks.